State v. Duff
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Vernon Circuit Court. — Nora. B. G. Thurman, Judge. (1) This case should be reversed for the reason that the jury was not sworn to try this cause. They were sworn touching their qualifications to sit as jurors in the case, hut were not sworn and impaneled after their selection as jurors. State v. Mitchell, 199' Mo. 105; State v. McKinney, 221 Mo. 467; State v. Randolph, 139 Mo.
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Appeal from Vernon Circuit Court. — Nora. B. G. Thurman, Judge. (1) This case should be reversed for the reason that the jury was not sworn to try this cause. They were sworn touching their qualifications to sit as jurors in the case, hut were not sworn and impaneled after their selection as jurors. State v. Mitchell, 199' Mo. 105; State v. McKinney, 221 Mo. 467; State v. Randolph, 139 Mo. App. 311; State v. Duncan, 237 Mo. 195; Lewis v. State, 51 Ala. 1; Harper v. State, 25 Ark. 83. (2) The court erred in permitting the prosecuting attorney to ask the defendant if he had not been arrested in…
1Opinion of the CourtParis, J.
Prom the conviction of defendant in the circuit court of Vernon county of the crime of burglary, wherewith, as also with larceny, he stood charged, by an information, he has appealed to this court.
The jury found defendant guilty of burglary, but not guilty of larceny charged, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years.
Since the facts are, in the view which we take of this case, not pertinent and not necessary to be stated in order that a complete understanding of the points in judgment may be had, we will not take space in reciting them further than…
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